Petros Koumantaros

Get to know Petros

Petros is a financial services entrepreneur, retirement plan consultant, and lifelong advocate for financial literacy. He builds businesses that help people pursue a secure and dignified financial future. Over his career, he has been a principal and shareholder across seven retirement and financial services companies. As a leader within the Spectrum Family of Companies, which are now part of Daybright Financial, he focuses on making workplace retirement plans easier to run and easier to use.

Petros Koumantaros

Across that work, Petros and his colleagues support thousands of workplace retirement plans and tens of thousands of plan participants and IRA investors. They steward several billion dollars in assets, with an emphasis on clear governance and responsible oversight. Petros is known for translating complex retirement topics into plain language so employers and individuals can make confident decisions.

Petros also contributes to the public conversation on expanding retirement coverage. He has testified on enhancing retirement and savings in America before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He has contributed recommendations to the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans. In Washington State, he has testified before both the House of Representatives and the Senate in support of legislation aimed at expanding retirement plan coverage. [testimony video links being relocated]

He currently serves as a Governor Appointed Member of the Washington Saves Governing Board, which designs and administers the Washington Saves Retirement Program. Washington Saves addresses the state’s growing retirement coverage gap by offering a simple, workplace-based savings option for employees who lack access to other retirement plans. Petros is also a regular speaker at industry conferences and professional societies, and he volunteers his time teaching financial literacy, where students know him as “Mr. 401(k).”

Professional responsibilities

Daybright Financial

Managing Partner, Spectrum Family of Companies | Daybright Financial
Managing Director, Revenue | Daybright Financial, Private Sector Retirement Segment

intellicents

Financial Consultant

Giving back

Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund

Named after Petros’s father, the Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, Tax ID: 47-2592539, that supports cancer research, treatment, and care initiatives. The Fund has raised over $1.7 million since 2006.

Financial Literacy

The absence of financial literacy in America’s educational system is among the greatest academic shortcomings of the past century. Petros volunteer teaches financial literacy to students and advocates for expansion of financial education programs.

If you’d like to invite Petros to speak, collaborate on retirement coverage initiatives, or discuss workplace retirement plans, reach out.